Name: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
ISBN: 978-0-333-55612-2

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R. Stott

R. Stott

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Keywords

female sex
fiction
women
British and Irish Literature

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This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siècle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy's Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

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'This is an impressively intelligent work of investigation, which makes good use of late Victorian imperial history and criminology.' - Chris Baldick, Times Literary Supplement

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REBECCA STOTT

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Book Title: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
Book Subtitle: The Kiss of Death
Authors: R. Stott
Series Title: Women's Studies at York Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-55612-2Published: 20 November 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66960-0Due: 20 November 1992
Series ISSN: 2947-0501
Series E-ISSN: 2947-051X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 257

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